Age of Conan
Age of Conan is a MMORPG based on the fiction of early 20th century pulp writer Robert E. Howard. The massively multiplayer game is greatly related to these sources. In the game the player will get to spend a lot of time watching old world brutes cutting and chopping their way through waves of enemies. The game is very acute to the standard MMO launch pattern. Nonetheless, it’s an exciting sword and sorcery game that will shake your game play experience to its core.
The online game offers 12 classes to choose from divided into four familiar groups, Soldier, Mage, Priest and Rouge, further players can chose to have a hybrid of these class that suites the taste for those who want a piece of everything. This property of the role playing game not only makes it unique among other games but also give the a lot of diversity. Once chosen a class and race of your tastes your brought to the character details where you get to create details on your character from facial details to whole body details which a lot of people like since they like to have a unique character, but this might not make much difference when equipped with armor which would eventually cover most of your body. Still having the ability to take control of details to your likes is always nice to have in these types of games.
Depending on the which race you choose you begin in one of the following areas; the three kingdoms of Tortage, Cimmeria in the mountains of the north, the sun scorched Stygia to the south, or the plains of Aquilonia in the middle. Each area has its own territory for leveling. Like level 20 and the mid to the upper level 30. In these territories a lot of quests and missions can be received from the local Non Playing Characters (NPCs) and for the most part, the quests are the same as seen in other role playing online games like World of Warcraft. Quests like delivery, bounty to kill or collecting of certain items. Missions like these are abundant in the game however the game has a unique system for quest that is not normally seen in MMORPGs in that different quest can be chosen through different interactions through the dialogues and cuts scenes with NPCs. This doesn’t give the game a 5 star rank but does give the game a unique look for modern MMORPGs.
The game’s Combat system, comparative to other MMORPGs is a lot easier. Whether you play as a melee sword fighter or a mage spell caster, they both have 
abilities that will have effects on an area of effect rather then a selected target, meaning you can attack multiple gangs of enemy and do damage to them all. Not only does this make the game easier to play but has a lot of advantages for both the classes, for example if your melee units slashes a sword on a gang of enemies you can chop all of their heads in a single blow just by adjusting the right time of attack so that they can cover the fully length of your blade. Similarly, if a spell caster casts a healing spell on a ally group, his spell will effect all the members which are under the area of effect of the casted spell, making the game easy for those who find gaining experience in the game hard.
Finally for the Player Versus Player (PVP) part of the game you will find guilds 
filled with members who are hungry to slaughter those who get in their path and will defend their guilds against those who try to attack them for resources that they took from others or collected them selves. The PVP is kind of old world warfare for resources and land but the major disappointment in the game is the PVP doesn’t contribute to any rank that would give others reason to fight against each other for greater ranks but this is promised by the developers to be added soon.
Beyond the game’s details, the environments are extremely beautiful and detailed. The music and sound effects compliment the visuals in an even greater and spectacular way, the soundtrack and ambient effects are even better, the chirps of crickets during the night and the crackle noise of fire pits in the stone traders. All in all the game really gives a good environmental distinction to its fiction.
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